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H. L. BUTTERv DRESS SHIELD EXTENDER.

,533. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

HORACE L. BUTTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,533, dated February 22, 1898. Application filed March 15, 1897. Serial No. 627,456. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HORACE L. BUTTER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress- Shield Extenders, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to dress-shields used in connection with the sleeves of garments for the purpose of protecting the garments against perspiration. As ordinarily used, these shields are attached more or less permanently to the garment to sustain them in position and to prevent their creasing or derangement, and their transfer from one garment to another involves considerable time and labor.

My invention is designed to render the dress-shield readily transferrable from one garment to another and at the same time to insure its proper position in the garment, and to maintain it therein in an extended position.

My invention consists in the special con struction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is an isometrical view of the frame unattached to the shield, the sections of the frame being extended at right angles to each. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the frame with shield attached and with the sections of the frame extended. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2, taken at right angles to said Fig. 2. Figs. a and 5 are elevations upon an exaggerated scale of the opposite ends of the sections of the frame extended. Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively views at right angles to Figs. 4 and 5. Fig. 8 is a view illustrating diagrammatically the engagement of one of the retaininghooks with the sleeve-seam of a garment. Fig. 9 is a sectional detail showing means for connecting the frame with the dress shield; Fig. 10, a View of the opposite side of the parts shown in Fig. .5; and Fig. 11 is an isometrical view of one of the hooks.

The extender consists, essentially, of two parts or members A B, hinged together so as to fold one upon the other. Both members are preferably semicircular in general out line or otherwise shaped to conform approximately to the shapes of the folds F F of the dress-sl1ield. This latter may be of any wellknown or desired form or construction, and I do not limit myself in this particular, since the essential features of my invention are applicable to dress-shields generally.

The hinged frame or sections A B may be formed of any suitable material and of any desired form in cross'section. I prefer, however, to form them of comparatively thin sheet metal, as shown in the drawings, so that they will lie flat against the flaps F F of the dressshield.

When made as shown in the drawings, the sections A B consist of the semicircular middle portion a b, with the parallel extensions a h. The ends of these parallel extensions a b are pivotally connected, so as to allow the sections A B to articulate freely one upon the other.

A convenient manner of effecting the pivotal connection between the parts A 113 is to shape the ends of the parallel extensions a 11 into hinge-knuckles a b and to connect them together with pintles 1), although I do not limit myself to this construction, since the sections may be linked together or otherwise connected by various mechanical expedients without departing from the spirit and intent of my invention. \Vhen the parts are hinged together, as illustrated in the drawings, I extend the pintles 1) beyond the knuckles a b and shape them into hooks h h for engagement with the sleeve-seam of a garment, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 8. While the connecting-hooks h h may be otherwise secured to the frame, the construction described is convenient and desirable, in that the pintles are free to turn in the knuckles a 19 so that the hooks h 71 may be readily inserted into or withdrawn from the sleeveseam m.

In order to hold the hooks h it either in or out of engagement with a certain degree of stability or tension, I extend the ends of the pintles p p opposite to the hooks h h beyond the knuckles a 19 bending them transversely to form the lateral arms Z, and arrange springs s s to bear upon said lateral ends. The

springs s s are preferably made integral with the frame, and an economical method of doing this when the frame is made of sheet metal is to form them directly out of the metal of the ends of the sections-as, for instance, out of the metal composing the ends of the parallel extensions Z9 b of the section B in the drawings. The springs may be separately formed and attached to the frame, if preferred.

Provision is made for securing the members A B of the frame to the folds or flaps F F of the dress-shield in any convenient manner. I prefer to accomplish this by striking up barbs a Z9 directly out of the sections A B, said barbs being pushed through the material composing the dress-shield from one side and bent over upon the opposite side of said material, as indicated in Fig. 9, in which the barbs are shown as passing through the binding around the edges of a rubber shield, although they may be applied to other portions of a shield, if preferred.

After the frame A B has been secured to the dress-shield F F the latter may readily be attached to or detached from the sleeve of a garment, it being simply necessary to hook it to or unhook it from the seam m, the sections holding the flaps F F extended and facilitating the operation of applying the shield as well as preventing the doubling or creasing of said flaps during use.

It is obvious that if it is preferred to incorporate the frame A B permanently with the dress-shield said frame may be interposed between the layers of material of which the shield is formed and still be within the scope of my invention. By making it for external application, however, I am enabled to use the same extending-frame for different shields.

It will be noticed that the hooks h h are so shaped that their fronts are shielded or covered by the opposed surface of the frame when in use, thus protecting the wearer of the garment against injury and at the same timelocking the seam of the garment securely in engagement with said hooks.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a dress-shield, of the extending-frame sections A, B, formed with the coinciding knuckles a b the hooks h, h, formed with pintles 19, p, which couple the sections A, B, together, and with lateral arms Z, Z, and the springs s, 8, bearing against said lateral arms Z, Z, substantiallyin the manner and for the purpose described.

2. The combination with a dress-shield, of an extending-frame consisting of the sections A, B, formed with the barbs a b for engaging with the dress-shield, and with the coinciding knuckles a 6 and springs s, 3, formed integral with said sections A, B, together with the hooks h, h, formed with the pintles p, p, and lateral arms Z, Z, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

HORACE L. BUTTER.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEo. WM. MIATT. 

